Posted on 12/17/2025 11:49:35 AM PST by EBH
Paris insists that the decision to cancel its New Year’s Eve open-air concert on the Champs-Élysées is merely a matter of crowd control. Officials speak of logistics, unpredictability and prudence. Yet few observers truly believe this is the whole story. The reality, uncomfortable though it may be, is that Europe’s great capitals are quietly recalibrating public life in response to a persistent and ideologically driven threat — one that has now asserted itself far beyond Europe’s borders.
Seen in this light, Paris’s muted New Year feels less like administrative caution and more like an admission of reality – Europe’s Muslim population has its own ideas about Europe’s future.
The Champs-Élysées has long been more than a boulevard. It is a statement — of openness, civic confidence and national pride. To cancel a live concert there, even while allowing fireworks to proceed, is to draw a subtle but telling distinction between spectacle and congregation. Fireworks can be controlled. Crowds cannot. And crowds have become dangerously attractive targets.
Europe knows this all too well. Christmas markets, once the embodiment of seasonal warmth and civic joy, have repeatedly been turned into killing grounds
This week’s attack on the Jewish community in Australia, reportedly carried out by Muslim gunmen and now under intense investigation by the authorities, has sent a chill through Western capitals. It was not simply another act of violence; it was a reminder that antisemitic jihadist violence is not confined to one continent or one set of political circumstances. From Sydney to Paris, the pattern is increasingly recognisable: symbolic targets, communal spaces, moments of celebration.
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Europe should make a weight loss New Year’s resolution: remove the Muslim weight from their borders.
Victory for Islam! Muhammed would be thrilled.
Oh! Also...coming soon to a Michigan or Minnesota city near you!
I also think this might signal something about Trump’s speech tonight.
Screw the Surrender Monkey Frogs!
Let me know when they cancel a Muslim celebration.
I wonder what the Vegas odds would be on that.
Next year the savages will win again, and expand their control over French culture;.
What next? will they shut down services at Notre Dame?
Next year it will be NYC cancelling Macys, Tree Lighting at ROC, and New Years.
This is the last year of the ball drop in New York City mark my words
The frogs are good at surrendering.
Kill them all.
Nonsense.
They’re surrendering to muzzies.
In spite of this, I will be at the Arch on New Years Eve for the fireworks, etc. I will provide an after-action report, if anything untoward happens.
I was hoping that the Vichy govt. of the WW II era was a one-time thing.
Unfortunately, it appears that Charles Martel was the "one-time thing" instead.
I should have put this link in my Post #15. Sorry for the oversight.
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/charles-the-hammer-at-tours/
CANCEL Ramandan and the two Eids!
Protect all Christian Feasts and both Gregorian and Julian New Year’s!
capitulation or appeasement?
Did they drop ceremonial rifles?
They almost walked out of WWI.
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